I really wish there was a law that forbids using the Homeopathic label on a product that isn't really homeopathic, but just non-medicinal. For example, there are some teas or cough drops that are soothing when you have a bad cold (in a similar way to how lemon or honey helps you feel better). Often these are labeled as homeopathic, even though they contain no homeopathic poisons. I don't mind getting non-medicinal remedies, but when I see the homeopathic label I tend to shy away.
Hahnemann advocated 30C dilutions for most purposes (that is, dilution by a factor of 1060).
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Dilution advocated by Hahnemann for most purposes: on average, this would require giving two billion doses per second to six billion people for 4 billion years to deliver a single molecule of the original material to any patient.
I think the parent's point was that things marketed as "homeopathic" usually have their active ingredient diluted into non-existence, so they're pointless to take for relief of the claimed symptom. Slapping the label "homeopathic" on something that actually does something is really annoying, then, because it'd make you assume it did nothing.
Or, things get the homeopathic label when they really aren't homeopathic at all -- they use it as a synonym for natural, or non-medicinal. Which is what I want sometimes. But I never want anything that is homeopathic, because to me that means fake.
Haha, or the opposite -- "homeopathic" cough drops with significant zinc in them, which is actually therapeutic according to solid research that somehow hasn't registered with the popular consciousness. Maybe zinc's problem is that it got claimed as homeopathic, discrediting it in most people's eyes?
